On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 6:00 PM, Nicolas Anquetil <nicolas.anquetil@inria.fr> wrote:

As all of us know, Famix recognizes 4 types of associations (reference, access, inheritance, invocation) and Moosechef was built upon these dependencies (queryAllOutgoingReferences, ...)

For convenience, it adds queryAllOutgoingDependencies
but this will miss a good deal of actual dependencies, because many of them are not expressed by associations:
- return type of a method
- type of a variable:

   - Parameter
   - Local variable
   - Attribute

- exceptions caught, thrown

- and declared exception

- parameter types in parameterized classes
- use of annotations
- other?

Since we now have a nice general API to query dependencies, it would be nicer if it were complete, ...

A possible solution would to rename queryAllOutgoingDependencies into queryAllOutgoingAssociations and change queryAllOutgoingDependencies to "do the right thing"

Or maybe invent new "virtual associations" (like ofType) and create queries for these associations, ...

nicolas

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